The Magnolia gazette., 1887-09-03
wHAr AN OLD EDITOR SAYS.
An interesting Letter. -HoImesville Ksv'
anaugh Topisaw. "
HoLMEsvlLLE, Miss :,
Aug. 80, 1887.

! EDlIOR OALEI ] Il - llIlN-INS
years ago the town of Holiness
willie was il the zenith of its glory.
II was the business center of a
large section Of country. No
other town in thirty miles of it.
Its citizens were good people and
strangers from every part of the
land. visiting there, we're kindly
treated. They would leave with
fe, Iings of r gret and speak well
OF the little town when they were
gone. ! sometimes meet men and
women many miles away from
here, who recall the happy days
they passed il Holmesvllle thirty
and forty years ago; but at Il
time when fortune seemed to
smile upon it most and its citizens
ard the people of the surround
ing country We're oniented and
happy, the railroad put in All APP
pea,ance about eight miles west
If it. This was the beginning of
ITS decline aud ruin. Nearly all
, its citizens moved away. The
, Young mcu and women who had
!, been laised snd educate here,
under the most refining christian
. influences, married and scattered
. over the world, leaving regrets
fully, the b, autiul little hamlet
to crumble into dust.
A new epoc has dawned over
the de>ola ION wrought in the Last
: two decades, under the inspiring
genius of man whose motto is,
), "where there is will, there is q
i way"
!, TIE OLD HOTEL
built by jeremiah Bearden in
= 1910, just ~ Yeas aye, ands u
! the same spot yet and has brer
i. convert, d into college building
i md at this writing is beng le.
+ pal ed, renovated and enlarged
= and II is here that
a KAvANAUGH cor LEGE
has been established under tn,
! indeIatigable super. ision of Rev
) ii. w. Featherstun Three year
, ago, tn man, without dolld
n and but little encouragement, cou
! c, wed the idea of btathlng nev
"a life into the dead hamlet and un
= der many difficulties, established
:. his school, which he called Kava
i naugh, in honor of Bishop Kava
70 naugh, an eminent NJ, thodist di
vine. Being thus named ard or
il garized by Methodist crcui
rider, eng nder d, at first, spirl
ns OF opposition among some of tn
y less informed and lib. raj of OH,
II denominations; but Mr.. Feather
10 stun is man of to much sens
;, to suppose that a sec,arian sch u
,1 could succe, d in such a communl
~ ty AMI has steered clear Of sectal
IL ian doctrines. H,nce he has rc
tlp ceived very liberal support iroi
{" persons of all denominations.
10 LAST SESSION
a. there we've 129 matrculates and
\, number of gra aduates of tn
q. school, and the most remarkab
2 feature about the /, tluence OF il
.w supervision, is. that n, arly all I'll
no attendants have become memhei
ut of the churches of their choice l.
N, consent OF their parents.
AFrLR
he the lapse OF so many years absent
pe irom Pike county, 1t is indeG
pie gratifying to this writer to Wis
5he the home and scenes of his ear
The chi dhood and manhood and
il meet the old familiar faces Of Il
by long ago, aud their children tn
al, have been raised-many of the
tie attendants OF this school. now e,
hat ucatsd and accomplished Christi.
on young men and women. The pc
the pie of Pike county, irrespecti'
ted of sectar;an principles ought I
sustain this school literally, bun
the it up, infuse new life to ther
to selves and their children. The
me is no place, perhaps, in the Sta
lief of Mississippi, better suited f
) the establishment OF great &C
Mill lege, than Holmes,illr. HeaItI
His and r, tired, wi'h one Of the mo
pei beautiful fresh water str ans ri
sed ping by IT. duofs, afford ne -pl,
the did bathing facilities, would ce
led tan ly give 1t this preferenr
rly Let the friends Of .ducatiun al
the OF Chris ianty, who count the
ase wealth by thousands aud hundre'
lor. of thousands and millions, give
srn. Tone complacsnt generous nod Al
rest help, where help is 20 much noe